Interesting and disgusting. There are 2 surveys: the one for Indian mturkers pays 20 cents and the one for US only pays 30 cents....
Did I say it was surprising? [ironic laughter] "Interesting" was used pretty much sardonically... Let's just stick with the "disgusting" part, shall we?
I may be being misinterpreted here... My comment was in fact that it was typically unfair that the mturkers in India are being asked to do the same survey as the US turkers, but for 10 cents less. That's the disgusting thing.
No more disgusting than requesters setting their pay at a ridiculously low level that is clearly trying to profit off of the Indian workers willingness to do the work. 20 cents in India is more like 40cents in the US.
20 cents equal around 10-11 Rupees here....Its really worth the time for we people coz the currency value is different
I think it depends on how you calculate these things. Although it's highly variable, as each state in India sets its own minimum wage, it looks like it averages out to about 240 rupees per day, give or take. That's $4.32 per day, or about 54 cents per hour. Rounding up to 60 cents per hour, 20 cents is 20 minutes worth of work. Using the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, 20 minutes worth of work is worth about $2.42 here. Of course, I suspect that there are a large number of Indian turkers who don't even make minimum wage in India for their work, which is pretty damned bad.
A freshly coursed out engineering graduate here is paid around 20K Rupees a month ..that is something around 370 $ which equals to 16.8 $ per day when calculated based on 22 full working days if considered sat and sun. is a holiday...Most Indian novice Turkers as far as i know finds it hard to get paid mor than 3$ a day and getting to 15$ a day is quite difficult..As far as i am considered ..I am a full time turker for past 3 months and some days i make upto 15$ while some days never cross 5$..So as its inconsistent Turking never wud make up to be a major income for a household unless u r really determined and dedicated to make 20$ evryday wch wud actually be a good earning....